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Poetic justice?

Following one of the the most controversial elections in the history of the post, the new Oxford professor of poetry has resigned after just over a week in the job. But was she right, as the first woman in history to hold the office, to relinquish such a prize? Commenting on her departure, Jeanette Winterson said: 'This is a way of reducing women: it wouldn't have happened to a man.' Were Padel's actions really so wrong, or did sexism play a part?